Sarah M. Allen

Sarah Allen became a shareholder and Director of Rice, Heard & Bigelow, Inc. in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner in the Boston law firm of Pabian & Russell, LLC. At Pabian & Russell, Sarah served as co-manager of the firm’s trust and estates department. Her legal practice was concentrated in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration and probate litigation. Sarah graduated with a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2000, earned a Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law in 2004 and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from Boston University School of Law in 2014. In 2020, Sarah was awarded the Accredited Estate Planning (AEP) designation.

In 2014, Sarah was named Up & Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and the Massachusetts Bar Association. Sarah was also named to the Massachusetts Super Lawyers list appearing in New England Super Lawyers Magazine and Boston Magazine from 2014 through 2022. In 2009, 2011 and 2012, Sarah was named to the Massachusetts Rising Stars list in the same magazines. She regularly serves as a lecturer for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association and local Estate Planning Councils on various estate planning and trust administration topics.

Sarah is a Past President of the Boston Estate Planning Council (BEPC). She is the Chair of the Professional Advisors Council (PAC) for the Boston Foundation and is the former Co-Chair of the Boston Foundation’s Professional Advisors Network (PAN). Sarah currently serves as co- trustee of the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund and as well as several other private family foundations. Sarah is active in her community volunteering as a trustee of the Trust Funds as well as in the classrooms at her children's school.

Contact Sarah:
sma@riceheard.com